25 May
2007
25 May
'07
12:09 p.m.
Les Mikesell wrote: [snip]
But that's a per-box per-repo specific change, with per-distro, per-repo variations for the end users to figure out for themselves. And then it won't fail over at all if the url you pick goes away. Aren't computers supposed to work for you instead of the other way around?
Have you seen this setup from Guru Labs? http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/YUM_automatic_local_mirror.php
It sounds like it does what you want it to. It uses DNS to redirect requests for a mirror list to a page you control without changing the clients.
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William Hooper